Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The Last Post (for a while, anyway)

After 125 epigrams in 125 days, I'm calling "Hurry up please it's time" on this blog. In the future, I might add an occasional post from time to time, but this is my last daily post, a quote from Kafka that sums up this entire blog:

"In a world of lies the lie is not removed from the world by means of its opposite, but only by means of a world of truth." -- Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

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ABOUT THE BLOGGER

Brian A. Oard is an atheist, an aesthete, a leftist, an existentialist, and quite a few other nouns. He is the creator of the literary blog Mindful Pleasures and the author of a collection of art criticism, Beauty and Terror: Essays on the Power of Painting and a historical novel, The Degas Manuscript. (Both books can be read online by clicking on the titles.) He lives in the United States, loves London and Paris, and enjoys the cheap objectivity of writing about himself in the third person.

THE EPIGRAM DEFINED

Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines an epigram as "a terse, sage or witty and often paradoxical saying." The word entered the English language in the 15th century and derives ultimately from the Greek epi + graphein, meaning to write on, inscribe.